* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Reba McEntire Details Personal Relationship With Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock – KNDU

    Reba McEntire Shares Emotional Tribute to Her Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock

    Sacramento city leaders approve adding 2 entertainment zones in midtown – CBS News

    Sacramento City Leaders Approve Two Thrilling New Entertainment Zones in Midtown

    AMC brings first new Dolby Experience to Gwinnett since 2017 – Wyoming News Now

    AMC Launches First New Dolby Experience in Gwinnett Since 2017

    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Next steps: Technology opens new options for greater mobility – Missouri Independent

    Next Steps: How Technology is Opening Exciting New Doors to Greater Mobility

    Rydberg Technologies Inc. Announces Launch of Rydberg Photonics in Berlin – The Quantum Insider

    Rydberg Technologies Launches Exciting New Photonics Division in Berlin

    A look into new technology at Columbia University that could help prevent a dangerous pregnancy complication – ABC7 New York

    A look into new technology at Columbia University that could help prevent a dangerous pregnancy complication – ABC7 New York

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Reba McEntire Details Personal Relationship With Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock – KNDU

    Reba McEntire Shares Emotional Tribute to Her Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock

    Sacramento city leaders approve adding 2 entertainment zones in midtown – CBS News

    Sacramento City Leaders Approve Two Thrilling New Entertainment Zones in Midtown

    AMC brings first new Dolby Experience to Gwinnett since 2017 – Wyoming News Now

    AMC Launches First New Dolby Experience in Gwinnett Since 2017

    Hetzel Design: blending architecture and entertainment – Blooloop

    Hetzel Design: Where Architecture and Entertainment Unite in Perfect Harmony

    Country music legend rushed to hospital year after heart surgery. Here’s what we know – PennLive.com

    Country Music Legend Rushed to Hospital One Year After Heart Surgery – What’s Happening Now?

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

    Strictly Come Dancing results: Chris Robshaw is eliminated while drag queen La Voix escapes dance-off – Yahoo

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    Next steps: Technology opens new options for greater mobility – Missouri Independent

    Next Steps: How Technology is Opening Exciting New Doors to Greater Mobility

    Rydberg Technologies Inc. Announces Launch of Rydberg Photonics in Berlin – The Quantum Insider

    Rydberg Technologies Launches Exciting New Photonics Division in Berlin

    A look into new technology at Columbia University that could help prevent a dangerous pregnancy complication – ABC7 New York

    A look into new technology at Columbia University that could help prevent a dangerous pregnancy complication – ABC7 New York

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    Office Technology: Dealers’ Managed IT Revenue up Nearly 30% – The Cannata Report –

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 E Network Technology Group Limited Closes $1.5 Million Convertible Promissory Note Offering – Quiver Quantitative

    3 Technology Stocks to Buy Now – Yahoo Finance

    3 Must-Buy Tech Stocks You Can’t Afford to Miss Right Now

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Tom Dunne: The Blades should’ve been bigger, but maybe Sprints will last the course

January 18, 2024
in News
Tom Dunne: The Blades should’ve been bigger, but maybe Sprints will last the course
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Is mid-January too early for a hot take? In the debate about whether it is easier to “make it” in music “these days” than it was in ancient times, I have an answer, and a clear one too. It is easier now. Yes, easier today than yesterday.

This revelation came to me in two ways. The first was watching The Blades on Tommy Tiernan. I was gobsmacked to see them. The music guests on Tommy’s show are wonderfully selected, but rarely of that vintage. I found myself a little emotional.

“They still have it,” I thought. The swagger of Brian Foley on bass and the coolness of Paul Cleary beside him delivering lines like “I’m not waiting at an airport. I’m standing at a bus stop” that nail 1980s Ireland to the wall. Yes Paul, you got it in one!

Back then, despite what Paul Weller might have said about life across the water, in Ireland, this was not the modern world.

These thoughts, happy thoughts of The Blades playing sell out shows in the Magnet Bar on Pearse Street, the walls dripping in sweat, the dancefloor heaving, ran though my head as I listened to the first great album of 2024: Sprints’ Letter to Self.

It is a glorious album. The word “punk” features in most reviews, an area I know well, and speaking from the well of that experience I would have to concur. Plus, it has what punk valued above all else: an original voice.

This is funny in a way as the voice in question — voice meaning, the lyrics, ideas, passions, odd takes, wonderful turns of phrase, wry observations, screams of rage and anger — is that of singer and guitarist Karla Chubb, who was once a contestant on The Voice of Ireland.

Yes, I know, a show set up to spot and nurture unique voices. It ran from 2012 to 2016. Failed to spot one voice. Failed to spot this voice.

Here, that voice is propelling Sprints to a truly wonderful first week of release. Dates are selling fast. The UK tour is sold out, as is the date in NYC, all others throughout Europe are following suit. The NME (still hanging in there) gives it a five-star review, Stereogum give it album of the week.

But it is in the weighty digital atmosphere of online publications like Pitchfork that the real work gets done. They give it a 7.1 — a mean spirited and conservative score, quelle surprise — that is contradicted by the wild enthusiasm of the review.

In the review they quote Chubb from a DIY magazine interview. “Anger doesn’t mean bad,” she says, “Anger means standing up for something.” Yes, anger is an energy, as a wise old man once said.

NME heralded a new addition to the “wave of Irish guitar music” that we thought had peaked with Fontaines DC. If Larry Gogan was alive, he’d be slipping current single ‘Heavy’ in lovingly between two pieces of daytime fodder. And God would we thank him!

But The Blades on Tommy got me thinking. The Blades had all of that, and possibly more. A local Ringsend band, for local Ringsend people, they sang of bus stops, and summer love, and pregnant brides and dead-end streets.

They looked amazing, all matching suits, tight haircuts and mod influences. Live they were spectacular. Paul Cleary only had to walk on stage to electrify the room. You knew he had it. The songs, the words, the moves. He was/is world class. Our Weller, our genuine punk songsmith, a man for his times.

I could write a separate essay on how the wind was taken from their sails — they didn’t have a Daniel Fox from Gilla Band to produce them, or a UK music press high on Fontaines-love to champion them — but the reason I would argue they would succeed more so today, and why it is easier now, is this: the internet.

Love it or loathe it, and it is complicated, it is an echo chamber. And if you have something, a song, a look, an attitude — it gets out there a million times more easily. You find your tribe, and you find it the world over.

The only caveat is, you have to have something — for example, a ‘Take me to Church’. A band now, as perfectly formed, as talent rich as The Blades were in 1979, with so many “somethings”, would rule the world.

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Irish Examiner – https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41311060.html

Tags: BladesDunnenews
Previous Post

‘Hitman Is Back,’ Fans Thrilled After Rohit Sharma Breaks Virat Kohli’s Elite Record

Next Post

Morgan disappointed with ‘disgraceful’ proposal to rename Páirc Uí Chaoimh 

Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease – Nature

Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease – Nature

October 23, 2025
Condensation defying gravity – European Space Agency

Condensation defying gravity – European Space Agency

October 23, 2025
Guest educators bring fun environmental science to Kent middle school – MyEasternShoreMD

Guest Educators Ignite Passion for Environmental Science at Kent Middle School

October 23, 2025
Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc. Profit Rises In Q3, Beats Estimates – Nasdaq

Equity Lifestyle Properties Delivers Impressive Q3 Profit, Exceeding All Expectations

October 23, 2025
Next steps: Technology opens new options for greater mobility – Missouri Independent

Next Steps: How Technology is Opening Exciting New Doors to Greater Mobility

October 23, 2025
American Football Betting Market Report 2025, with Profiles of ESPN, Caesers Entertainment, Entain, Fanatics Sports Betting, Betfred and Other Major and Innovative Companies – Yahoo Finance

American Football Betting Market Report 2025, with Profiles of ESPN, Caesers Entertainment, Entain, Fanatics Sports Betting, Betfred and Other Major and Innovative Companies – Yahoo Finance

October 23, 2025
UIPM 2025 Obstacle World Championships (OCR): All you need to know – Union Internationale de Pentathlon Moderne (UIPM)

Your Ultimate Guide to the 2025 Obstacle World Championships

October 23, 2025
PPPs in Bolivia: The future of our economy? – Dentons

Could PPPs Unlock Bolivia’s Path to Economic Prosperity?

October 23, 2025
Reba McEntire Details Personal Relationship With Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock – KNDU

Reba McEntire Shares Emotional Tribute to Her Late Stepson Brandon Blackstock

October 23, 2025
Mark Peterson receives inaugural APSA Career Achievement Award in Health Politics and Policy – UCLA

Mark Peterson receives inaugural APSA Career Achievement Award in Health Politics and Policy – UCLA

October 23, 2025

Categories

Archives

October 2025
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Sep    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (882)
  • Economy (903)
  • Entertainment (21,774)
  • General (17,757)
  • Health (9,944)
  • Lifestyle (916)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (904)
  • Politics (913)
  • Science (16,114)
  • Sports (21,403)
  • Technology (15,883)
  • World (886)

Recent News

Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease – Nature

Vibrio pectenicida strain FHCF-3 is a causative agent of sea star wasting disease – Nature

October 23, 2025
Condensation defying gravity – European Space Agency

Condensation defying gravity – European Space Agency

October 23, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version